The Scottish Government has announced More Homes Scotland – a new national executive agency to speed up and maximise affordable housing delivery across Scotland. Key details: Focus: in three parts – simplicity (reducing duplication and inefficiencies), scale (delivering large projects, including rural and island needs), and speed (unlocking stalled sites, land, infrastructure and collaboration with the Scottish National…

The final Scottish Budget before the Holyrood election is a step in the right direction on housing and homelessness. But amid a continuing emergency that is causing real harm to people across Scotland, the next Scottish Government must go further to reverse chronic underfunding that is leaving thousands of people…

People facing homelessness in Scotland are once again at risk of trauma and harm as the housing emergency threatens the return of old-style communal night shelters, experts fear. The warning, echoed by people with lived experience of using shelters, comes as groundbreaking research from Heriot-Watt University details how Scotland ended…

Scotland has some of the strongest homelessness rights in the world, but those rights are being fatally undermined by chronic underfunding and a persistent failure to deliver social homes at the scale required. Legislation cannot house people. Only investment can do that – and the forthcoming Scottish budget is an…

This year’s homelessness conference was the biggest yet, with more than 250 people joining us on each day at Perth Concert Hall. Highlights this year included the Cabinet Secretary announcing new homelessness funding, All in for Change sharing the results of their first peer research, unforgettable keynotes from Floella Benjamin (plus Humpty) and Eireann McAuley, a celebration of the frontline workforce, and the launch…